nah this is more late 90's because it's a build engine game and almost none of those came out after 2000's and the music was more late 90's alt rock and cartoon network style culture. i was there, and i can tell the difference. you wanna frickin argue with me i'll kill your entire family and make you eat your mother's c**t lips
it's kind of crazy that 00's kids that make ur mom jokes and insult you by saying youre dads a nerd, are still way way cooler and less cringe than chuds like this
It's also possible to save The old biker dude , but none of the other four.
The newscast actually changes to say how many people died based on of you saved one or both of them. If you looked through the game files there was an unused version where only three died, but that was never used and I believe was deleted in a later update.
He grows up to be a giant manchild that's stuck in a dead end job that doesn't pay very well and is stuck with a kid on top of that.
Basically what
>Finding the hidden dev rant where the guy who was Zane's friend in high school absolutely hates Zane's guts for begging him to finish the game 20 years later in some desperate attempt to escape his dead end Dollar Store manager job
This is too real, I hate it
said. He has absolutely no skills or prospects to get out of his current situation.
>make an fps spinoff of a niche adventure game >sell a bundle that has both the niche adventure game and the spinoff in it >make it so that you have to not own the niche adventure game that this shooter is a spinoff of in order to get the bundle
I hate this publisher so fricking much
forgot to add >claim that's just how bundles on steam work >despite the fact that there are hundreds of "complete the set" type bundles out there
Yeah I kinda just think they didn't wanna give an extra discount since they already had one at release and the chances of you just randomly deciding to buy this without already having played Hypnospace Outlaw are pretty slim.
>already had a discount on release
You mean the trick where they price a game at a really odd price so when a 10-15% discount is applied its normal (multiple of 5) again? This isn't a real discount, they are abusing how steam categorizes stuff so it lasts longer on the front page.
Tomato is fun, it's a shame he's such a commie cartoon sometimes. Lmao him ranting for like 30 minutes about how he would disown anyone that played Harry Potter game without having a good reason and donating the money he made to like troony charity was fricking hilarious
It's short (took me about 3 hours to beat although I missed almost every secret). The cutscenes are fricking hilarious. It's like some Deviantard managed to get his hands on some 3D animation software from the 90s and make a game on his weird nonsensical Gary Stu character (In this case, it's Zane, famous CEO/famous comic book artist/part time employee at some Dollar Store parody).
Also the final boss fight was one of the most fun boss fights I've encountered in a long time.
Pretty sure the entire point of the game is that it canonically was made BY Zane, who cast himself as the main character. The entire thing is very early 00s self-insert fanfic.
Helps that Zane has some pre-existing lore/backstory from Hypnospace Outlaw if you played that game.
Honestly kind of interesting to think of all the people who tried to be the "cool" janny and got a kid killed because of it and just assumed there was no way to save him when he was very clearly going to try and get himself more red flags.
To be fair, you could say that about a lot of aspects of Hypnospace Outlaw. But cracking netcrimes was worth hypnocoin so I was the sort to check back in and see if anything new would crop up.
Not as much on TV but it definitely was on the early internet. I remember running into many silly random "webcomics" or flash animations where the joke was "ha ha ha poop". One that I now suddenly remember out of nowhere was based on A Boy And His Blob, the boy feeds the blob a laxative, it starts shitting all over the place and flies off covering the whole area in it.... the boy commits suicide after seeing his entire house covered in shit.
I really wonder what Dreamsettler is going to be like. Is it just Hypnospace with a new coat of paint, is it set in next decade or something else?
IIRC they originally said in the early 2000s but I believe they have since confirmed it to be 2003.
"hahaha poop" seemed like it was one of the main punch lines when it came to Newgrounds humor, like the dude in the bathroom you could kill in Pico's School who threw poop at you when you opened his bathroom stall
Yes, kind of. I remember, when I was 11, a complete moron from our class misspelled peace as pis on the blackboard, either deliberately or not, and we had been chuckling whenever someone said peace for a couple of years straight.
That's very obvious if you pay attention in Hypnospace. IIRC they had the same headband ID and I think some of the files on FLIST pointed to them being the same person. IIRC he also ran the "Coldpunk is Dead" page
I don't recall but I believe it was also implied that the person who sang on stage Wasn't even him and was just an actor taking his place. Though whether Fr33z3r intentionally set him up to fail to bring the downfall of Coldpunk or it just happened I don't remember but it was quite clear that Fr33z3r felt Coldpunk was dead and had become too much of a commercial version of what it started out as.
The real question is, who was the pilot?
Chowder Man, everyone on the helicopter and on the ground watching it take off saw it was him. It was never a question of who was responsible for the crash.
But it was never revealed who was phone
i must assume this is a jab to the edgelord who made Anonymous;Agony?
... what? It was showing Zane e-mailing someone in Dreamsettler. But another anon said that was just for the trailer and it's confirmed Zane will not be in it.
Only thing that's bad are the visuals (which is deliberate) but in terms of gameplay it's pretty solid. There's some neat gimmicks with some of the weapons. The shotgun in the game for example (forget what it's called) shoots broken glass and instead of standard ammo pick ups you break windows and glass objects to get ammo for it. The crossbow launches explosive cans that in addition to dealing splash damage also spawn rats which attack nearby enemies (and you can talk to them). The minigun has some kind of weird drill like barrels that'll deal additional damage to enemies at point blank range and cakes the barrels with blood (except for terd monsters which cake the barrels with shit). Then you've got your super weapon that has two firing modes, specifically throwing exploding energy balls if you just click the fire button and firing a constant energy beam if you hold the fire button. Firing the beam also causes you to levitate as well so you can use it to reach places you wouldn't normally be able to get to
>The minigun has some kind of weird drill like barrels that'll deal additional damage to enemies at point blank range and cakes the barrels with blood
It also gives you a vertical boost if you aim it down. A mechanic that is only actually mandatory in ONE of the post-game bonus levels so it's easy to forget it can do that...
I didn't know someone actually bought Sparky. I liked the dude's AVGN games but this didn't look like anything special
Wasn't even aware it was the same dude. I remember playing it during a Steam demo fest and wishlisted it since I liked it, then got it one day when it was on sale. Yeah, almost nobody seems to know or care about that game though.
I bought a copy of Spectacular Sparky just because I noticed that this poster was drawn by Richard Elson, who was also one of the artists for the Bongland Sonic comic in the 90s, and I thought that was pretty cool.
I always found it hilarious that the boss he's fighting looks like a bootleg fusion of Eggman and 80's Krang.
I like this sort of larp thing they've got going on in the steam discussions and steam reviews where they've basically got a Zane account that insults people and argues with the publisher
Honestly this game hits a chord with me similar to Lil Gator Game which sounds really weird to say, but its this childhood memory of drawing and making games to play but it actually came to life. I had heaps of notebooks with tons of map ideas, cutscenes, powerups, etc, and it hit that just right.
For better or for worse, this game feels like the designers played a lot of the shitty forgotten 90's FPS as inspiration, not just the usual Doom/Quake/Duke. At least the gameplay is much more fun than Redneck Rampage, even if the version I played on Game Pass was chock full of shitty bugs like enemies clipping through floors and entire geometry disappearing.
Also, anybody check out those extra levels you get after beating the game? Felt the exact same feeling I did when downloading shitty Blood usermaps from the net as a teen, kind of freaky.
Make the secrets fun or valuable in-game, with special powerups, secret weapons, lore dumps, etc.
The Conspiravision easter egg in Deus Ex is absolutely fantastic and it's just for fun.
I know nothing of the game this is a spin off of, but does this Zane guy have a scat fetish? There's shit everywhere, a concerning amount of shit even.
and threads made on the day of release or the day after died after 6-7 posts, but now that an e-celeb made a video about it, then the thread doesn't die.. it's always like this w/ nu-Ganker because zoomers are sheep
Oh no motherfricker, we wouldn't even be having this thread if it weren't for ecelebs. It's hard enough getting a thread about a niche game like Hypnospace going, let alone a thread about an equally niche spinoff.
Anyone else actually enjoy the brevity of the campaign? It hits a bunch of really good points and doesn't outstay its welcome for what is clearly a very dedicated longform shitpost.
I bought a copy of Spectacular Sparky just because I noticed that this poster was drawn by Richard Elson, who was also one of the artists for the Bongland Sonic comic in the 90s, and I thought that was pretty cool.
Dispatch calls Corey as a potential school shooter when you Flag him and suspends him for three days while Zane is just "having some fun" and gets a warning. IIRC the opnly person who says anything nice about Corey is Sandy. The Dumpster and Tim both dislike him too
>Dispatch calls Corey as a potential school shooter when you Flag him and suspends him for three days
I must of forgot that, because then yeah, that's a little harsh (though I can't remember what he gets flagged for, so maybe not). >The Dumpster and Tim both dislike him too
The dumpster and Tim are both trolls though and shit on virtually everyone.
How's Hypnospace Outlaw gameplay? loved Slayers X and im going to get Hypnospace regardless, i was just curious about what kinda game it is
You browse a fictional version of the old internet as a moderator, but it has a ton of optional webpages you can visit that aren't necessary at all.
If I had to guess, I'd say it'd look too practical. moronic and impractical weapon designs are kind of a staple of teenage OC moronation (kind of like that one moronic original character donut steele Keyblade that used to get posted in vidya cringe threads here regularly)
Anyone else notice that in the cutscene where when you talk to Mevin in his backyard, it's clearly a TRENNIS court? I loved that little detail when on Hypnospace the Trennis thing was a single throwaway gag website that was completely optional unless you were going for 100% completion of every webpage visited.
If I had to guess, I'd say it'd look too practical. moronic and impractical weapon designs are kind of a staple of teenage OC moronation (kind of like that one moronic original character donut steele Keyblade that used to get posted in vidya cringe threads here regularly)
Zane probably thought it would look lame since it's not something he made and likely kids at school he hated used it too. That or it does not even exist in the setting, don't forget that the universe Hypnospace/Dreamsettler/SlayersX takes place in is an alternate one where some things in history happened differently (like the Tennis/Trennis example above)
>DUDE LE RETRO SHOOTER WITH SECRET DEEP MEANING
No thanks.
That's the great thing about it, it had no deep meaning whatsoever. It's literally nothing more than "Hey, remember that 15 year old kid from Hypnospace that was an egotistical butthole? Well, what if he was trying to make a game back then, lost the work he did, never really became any less of an egotistical despite becoming 37, and then found the designs for the game he had lost and decided to finish it?"
That's it, it's about as "deep" as a puddle, the whole point is that it's a boomer shooter "designed" by a 15-now-37 year old egotistical butthole with no other hidden meaning whatsoever, nor any meta-nonsense like Undertale or Doki Doki Literature Club.
About as "deep" as it gets is that one of the easter eggs in a later level is a secret area put there by the guy Zane got to do most of the work on the game since he sure as frick is too stupid to make a game on his own where said guy basically mocks Zane for hounding him to finish the game 20 years later and having never amounted to anything more than a manager at a dollar store despite being 37 now.
I'm not playing a game that's bad on purpose.
The gameplay itself is not bad at all, it's pretty good, the only thing that is bad on purpose is the story (and the girl's voiceacting) which is about 5 minutes of cutscenes total.
But it's not.
I mean presentation-wise it's bad on purpose, but it's a pretty solid Build Engine core (I fricking hate the term "boomer shooter") shooter.
Only thing that's bad are the visuals (which is deliberate) but in terms of gameplay it's pretty solid. There's some neat gimmicks with some of the weapons. The shotgun in the game for example (forget what it's called) shoots broken glass and instead of standard ammo pick ups you break windows and glass objects to get ammo for it. The crossbow launches explosive cans that in addition to dealing splash damage also spawn rats which attack nearby enemies (and you can talk to them). The minigun has some kind of weird drill like barrels that'll deal additional damage to enemies at point blank range and cakes the barrels with blood (except for terd monsters which cake the barrels with shit). Then you've got your super weapon that has two firing modes, specifically throwing exploding energy balls if you just click the fire button and firing a constant energy beam if you hold the fire button. Firing the beam also causes you to levitate as well so you can use it to reach places you wouldn't normally be able to get to
I'm too busy talking to you're mom to talk to kids Or at least I was until she started talking about paternity tests and how paying child support was the least I could do for leaving her stuck with a moronic kid
"Safe" X is some new zoomer buzzword speak because they are legitimately too stupid to know the proper definitions.
Its not "risque" or "fan service" anymore, its "safe horny" because they know what horny means.
If you hear anyone talking like this they are at least a decade younger than you, maybe more.
Whats to get? Its a parody of edgy 2000s-era teens made by a fictional character from hypnospace outlaw. Look at the game like a 15 year old edgelord made it.
Get this if you like Duke Nukem, late 90s American suburbia, and self-loathing nostalgia. Get HROT if you like Quake, Soviet satellite states, and existential discomfort.
HROT is alright for the most part but it's seriously lacking in terms of cohesive level design. You could be in a castle in one level, then some kind of Soviet facility or downtown area the next, and then a church/catacomb out in the country side the next. Since the themes between levels are so haphazard and since the intermission text between episodes merely consists of recipes for slavic dishes there's no real sense of progression.
If you liked Hypnospace and you like boomer shooters you'll like this. It does the same thing Hypnospace did with it's characters where you can see some hints of Zane's real personality leaking through the edgy teen mask. Like how he pulls a Chris-chan and makes his IRL boss and possibly stepdad the villain of his game.
>The whole meta angle that this is actually just a game made by some looser trying to relive his childhood is gay as shit
I find it hilarious. It's one of the most entertaining ways I've seen developers interact with the community
>Finding the hidden dev rant where the guy who was Zane's friend in high school absolutely hates Zane's guts for begging him to finish the game 20 years later in some desperate attempt to escape his dead end Dollar Store manager job
This is too real, I hate it
>Finding the hidden dev rant where the guy who was Zane's friend in high school absolutely hates Zane's guts for begging him to finish the game 20 years later in some desperate attempt to escape his dead end Dollar Store manager job
This is too real, I hate it
>Find the secret in the dam with his kid's shitty doodles >Realize he named his kid Mikey after his cringe OC donut steel >Zane still sounds like a proud, beaming father saying that his kid will probably be an artist one day
There's a weird poignancy here that's elevated by how shitposty the rest of the game is.
He is, just like in the "webcomic" Zane had on his website in Hypnospace he basically made his self-insert be in a secret organization that Mikey started, as well as have him "secretly" be his father (IIRC he never met his real father) because he's a fan of the band Mikey is the frontman of.
In-Universe apparently Mikey for some reason was amused when he saw the archive of Zane's hypnospace fanpage and allowed him to license the songs for the game.
I guess the Mikey in the game is half-OC, he's based on a real person but heavily altered.
Why did Zane hate Corey so much? Why did EVERYONE hate Corey so much prior to him going niceguy mode with Tiff
Kids just simply not liking each other in school happens all the time, it could have been any number of things that started it or even just trying to fit in with a group that also did not like him. Many of these happen with little to no reason.
Dispatch calls Corey as a potential school shooter when you Flag him and suspends him for three days while Zane is just "having some fun" and gets a warning. IIRC the opnly person who says anything nice about Corey is Sandy. The Dumpster and Tim both dislike him too
>Dispatch calls Corey as a potential school shooter when you Flag him
WTF? That's kind of.... extreme. Was this added in the Plus update that added more content to the game? I don't remember that at all.
IIRC it was implied that Corey might be a bit of a jerk as well, though nowhere near the level of Zane that pretty much everyone hates, or judging by his pizza jokes page he could just be annoyingly awkward and weird. I am pretty sure that Tim doesn't like him because he tried to hit on Tiff. Same with Zane, which is why later Tim hacked his page (I don't recall if Corey's page gets hacked) after they both started annoying Tiff. Just about all the trouble that Tim caused people on Hypnospace was over trying to impress Tiff.
Also, part of the harsher punishment might have been because Corey started a club to hate on Zane and had (before an update to the game) graphic showing Zane being decapacitated. (Slayers X has the original in it)
>gets a warning.
POV you didn't save Zane, fricking loser ||neither did I:(||
That's the first Act, Zane always gets a warning there, and without sequence breaking is mandatory to happen as part of the story. It's in the last act that you can get Zane banned to save him.
>WTF? That's kind of.... extreme
Nah its not flat out "hes a school shooter" its more " I get a bad vibe from this weird kid" and giving him a harsher punishment than Zane
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>Nah its not flat out "hes a school shooter" its more " I get a bad vibe from this weird kid" and giving him a harsher punishment than Zane
Ok yes, that sounds a lot more familiar. Rather extreme to hear that and think they were implying he was a potential school shooter.
Tim also did the virtual parasite stuff, shitting on people who kept to themselves mostly for no reason, I rate him worse than Zane tbqh
Virtual parasite? I don't remember that, unless you are referring to the "disturbing" imagery he hacked into some people's webpages or that weird "virus" that displayed pieces of a deformed foot and corrupted images on your screen. Neither of those was called Virtual Parasite though.
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>Virtual parasite
There was that horror mini "game" you could play
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>Virtual parasite?
The Scary, True Tranquility that Tim and Tiff collaborated on has four characters referred to as "Digital Parasites" that were based on four users from multiple zones and makes fun of them pretty badly, even calling out the guys dead wife and the guy for being a paraplegic
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>don't remember that
Remember the card game, the one that hints at who has the images on their page? Idk if that was called parasite, I'm not thst anon
I remember the card game, which was supposed to be a way to hint at which pages were "infected" without just brute-force looking at every page, didn't remember it being called Digital Parasite. Also didn't remember it being that harsh on the people.
>grover looking for load bearing drywall
Jesus fricking christ, this is a deep cut.
Considering the entire game is about 20-ish year old internet nostalgia and they absolutely nailed it in a way only someone who was there could it's not really a surprise. There are a few webpages that mimic events that were happening in our world during that time, such as this one Christian page that tries to insist the in-universe version of Pokemon is secretly satanic.
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The people are the digital parasites, Tim makes fun of them for using Hypnospace as a way to cope with their less than stellar realities. Chowderman being a washed up tryhard, Harlan for his shitty page design and his no legs, Biker guys dead wife etc
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Funny, since t1m was just as if not more pathetic than them, desperately trying to impress m1nx and Tiffany, failing in both, and basically acting as a script kiddie compared to m1nx's actual hacking with the leaks. Even the horus club got more done, as a joke, than he did. Imagine spending 6 years of your life in prison and thinking you killed 4+ people with your gay page takeover spam.
It's kind of incredible how hard this game commits to the 16 year old "can't use real swear words incase mom hears" when Zane is a grown man, even funnier is how it uses the ring finger for flip offs
Maybe he doesn't want his kid hearing swear words or seeing obscene gestures Kind of wholesome if that's the case
He could just simply be that stupid. The game is utterly full of misspelled words after all. Or maybe the ring finger is what's considered flipping people off in that universe. (Lot harder to pull off than using the middle finger however)
I unironically know a few redneck morons that do that. They usually self c*nsor and have dead end jobs like zane. Safe to say the dev probably knew a few people like that was well.
>I'm not a fan of 'political' games that use abundant leftist and/or queer imagery to attract an audience that largely already agrees with said politics. That's more marketing than it is legitimately expressing a political ideology. It rarely amounts to much more than flavor or style or a call to a particular tribe. >These are the kinds of empty 'politics' that AAA games throw in and tbh I don't blame anyone for outright rejecting that. >Politics are are best addressed via mundane and relatable characters of different ages and classes, and the very real impact that corporate or gov't choices make on their lives. Not some utopia where everyone in the game is 22 and has pink hair and rescues animals while also completing a sociology degree.
was this supposed to make me mad because it just makes me like him more
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Frick, I gotta buy 50 copies now, actual based dev for once
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sadly the other dev is more of the moron leftist kind
I just realized the character who voices stefanie might be the actual co-worker (and ex-gf, if you consider the twitter account canon) Zane based her on
if he really contacted her twenty years later and asked her to voice act in his game, that would explain why her performance is so half-assed
It takes place in an alternate universe that's similar to ours but has several differences that you will run into as you browse pages, most of those are optional and just for worldbuilding. A big one being that tech that lets you use a computer in your sleep was invented in the late 90s, as that's what the whole game takes place in. You are a mod and only allowed access to specific curated areas of the service (I don't recall if it's implied if the headbands can access the entire internet but as a mod you are locked into specific zones you are supposed to moderate, or if it's a smaller network that only the headbands can access something like the "zones" AOL had).
If you used the internet in the mid-to-late 90s or early 00s it should feel very familiar.
>Dispatch calls Corey as a potential school shooter when you Flag him and suspends him for three days
I must of forgot that, because then yeah, that's a little harsh (though I can't remember what he gets flagged for, so maybe not). >The Dumpster and Tim both dislike him too
The dumpster and Tim are both trolls though and shit on virtually everyone.
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You browse a fictional version of the old internet as a moderator, but it has a ton of optional webpages you can visit that aren't necessary at all.
>The dumpster and Tim are both trolls though and shit on virtually everyone.
Not really, The Dumpster generally leaves kids alone. When they gave Zane an "award" they mentioned how this one time they are making an exception because of how much of a toxic butthole Zane is.
Tim if I remember right only started to hate Zane later when he started to bother Tiff, but he also hated Corey for the same reason.
I hope Zane makes another game. Slayers X was great. It's not the most solid in the genre of retro throwback shooters, but it's got it's own charm.
Unless by some unholy miracle the game in-universe sells well, he's going to have to win another lottery to do that. The backstory is that's how he managed to afford to make this one, and he's apparently not going to be in Hypnospace's sequel because he's too poor to afford the service.
>Decide to do INZANE for my first playthrough >Fighting Warewolf Steffanie and the ridiculous enemy room with 6% health
frickin tense
praise the sewage launcher and rats >Then seeing that 250 kills was only 60% of Cult Die Sac
jfc
Yeah, I noticed when I saved in the enemy room before pressing the switch the spawn the second wave, I got shot in the back a few times despite being pretty sure I cleared the room first but I was wondering if I was just insane. inzane even
The game’s bugged to shit. Those flying brains appeared to respawn every time I reloaded with 1 HP, but would sometimes be stuck under the floor so they could shoot me and I couldn’t shoot back. Other weird shit I saw was enemy sprite billboarding glitching out so they’d be facing you at odd angles with the edge sticking out like some Paper Mario shit, and entire buildings disappearing so enemies can shoot through.
Damn, wish I had known that before I played. All the broken shit outside the intended jank kind of soured my first impressions, but I still had a good time overall.
The final level was probably one of the most intense levels I've played in a boomer shooter in a long time basically you're on a highway leaping between cars and trucks and going through trailers and buses. Once you get to the second phase of the final boss he turns into this giant head on a spring or some shit while you're jumping around the previous cars and shit to avoid his attacks. Buses and trailers only provide temporary cover because his attacks will destroy the roofs and walls of them. It's pretty intense
>don't remember that
Remember the card game, the one that hints at who has the images on their page? Idk if that was called parasite, I'm not thst anon
Funny thing is it would not have been obvious at all back at the time the game is supposed to take place in, the tag is even listed as "lifestyle" or something like that. And outside of that tag nothing about them on their webpages IIRC implies they are gay.
Be honest. Would you Zane's Girlfriend when she became a Warewolf?
It's more he wishes she would be his girlfriend than she is, even in the game they are not together.
And no, of course not. ... maybe
Jokes aside, I wonder if him making up a potential girlfriend for his self-insert in the game is supposed to be a callback to when he created a fake page for a made up girl he claimed was his girlfriend in Hypnospace.
This game exists in a time before furries, trannies and other mindrot degeneracy
Technically the game came out in-universe in 2020, even if most of it was designed around 1998 or so. The fact that the designer/main character has not grown up or matured at all since 1998 doesn't help make that obvious.
It's a fun game. It does channel that early 2000s edge well. I wish the game was harder and the weapons had alt fires. Inzane wasn't very difficult. Had a few laughs here and there.
it came out in 2022. If according to the secret room, Zane is 37, it means he he was born in 1985, and saying he designed the game when he was 13, so 1998, it counts. Ignore morons like
>late 90's - 2000s >before furries >When furries were a thing back in the 80s and 90s with artists selling their stuff through old IRC channel groups
, furgay didn’t become “mainstream” until 1999 (appearing in MTV’s Downtown)
I’m interested in how his shitty friend will reconcile with Zane if the game does well enough to warrant a sequel. Will the levels be shit cause he left? Will there be secrets where he admits he was wrong about Zane? Or he argues it was only good because of him?
>late 90's - 2000s >before furries >When furries were a thing back in the 80s and 90s with artists selling their stuff through old IRC channel groups
None of that shit was mainstream and the industry wasn't self-aware of degenerates creeping in yet. Pic related.
Thing is though, I think it was implied in Hypnospace that furries don't really exist in that universe. Some of the optional stuff you can run into, which as I recall even The Dumpster pointed out and was confused by it, was how some people on FLIST had drawings of cars with faces, I think some of them were supposed to be seductive looking too.
Felt like that was implying that instead of animals, the "furry" equivalent in that universe was anthropomorphizing cars and vehicles instead.
That's just it. There's no humongous database of said cars. There's no alloted zone to discuss these cars, and there's no twitter adjacent where a huge congregation of them brushes against the mainstream world. We won't see pixar's cars be cancelled just like that jack and the beanstalk film was just yet. It's very much before that era of degenerate homogeneity and self-awareness.
It's a fun game. It does channel that early 2000s edge well. I wish the game was harder and the weapons had alt fires. Inzane wasn't very difficult. Had a few laughs here and there.
Slayers X is basically an official fangame/spinoff of Hypnospace Outlaw, which came out in 2019. Zane (as in, the "real" Zane, the in-universe person who made the game about himself) was one of the characters. The game was about you moderating a late-90s internet service that you use in your sleep, Zane was one of the more frequent troublemakers on said service.
Hypnospace itself is also getting a sequel called Dreamsettler that will take place in 2003.
>no quicksave/load >asks you if you want to overwrite every time >pressing enter choses no >tfw I have to redo that entire secret area in the 5th level
How do you even fly properly with the talisman?
Talismen gets almost no verticality, you have to use the minigun for high jumps the only worthwhile thing in the secret area is the minigun to the right, the ravine with all those jezta spawners/elementals gives you a teleport back to the main area without the guaranteed dmg from falling
Time your jump after you start holding the button to charge the beam such that you start firing at the apex of your jump. Since you stay at the exact same altitude while you still have hackblood, timing the jump should give you just enough height to make it to the next edge and repeat the process. Worked enough for me to get through that secret area in the computer as well as the shitty bonus level where it’s necessary.
Oh yeah, the minigun is definitely easier. Also you seem to gain air when hitting targets with the talisman. Shame there's nothing in that area.
>no quicksave/load
Press F5 and F9.
doesn't work, am I getting bamboozled by a psyko turdhead?
>doesn't work
Works on my machine. Notice the save icon on the top-left whenever I save and Zane going "THE S-BLADE HAS A HACKBLOOD CHARGE" whenever I quickload in.
Time your jump after you start holding the button to charge the beam such that you start firing at the apex of your jump. Since you stay at the exact same altitude while you still have hackblood, timing the jump should give you just enough height to make it to the next edge and repeat the process. Worked enough for me to get through that secret area in the computer as well as the shitty bonus level where it’s necessary.
The Talisman slowly and gradually raises you to a fixed maximum height over your current position - this means that to effectively fly with it you need to stand at a high point - fire until you stop ascending, THEN you should move forward while holding the beam. You won't get any vertical boost if just throw it out during a jump over a ledge/pit.
That being said it takes a lot of hackblood to use correctly and it's a better habit to just use the chaingun, which has a higher maximum height anyways.
Even though Zane is clearly not real, it's kinda admirable that they had his character leap at the chance to bring his childhood OC to life rather than being some no fun adult who would look back at his past life and go "that's cringe"
If I had the time, money, and skills i would have done something like this with stuff i made when i was a kid.
>LE OOs NOSTALGIA
Kys
>No fun allowed
kys
>having nostalgia for any time other then when I was a child specifically
acktshually it's more late 90's but i wouldn't expect you to recognize that, zoomblood
The early 00s are just the 90s still culture wise
nah this is more late 90's because it's a build engine game and almost none of those came out after 2000's and the music was more late 90's alt rock and cartoon network style culture. i was there, and i can tell the difference. you wanna frickin argue with me i'll kill your entire family and make you eat your mother's c**t lips
>mother's c*** lips
Do americans really have to resort to swearing to make joke?
>c***
>to make joke
good morning SIR
私のケツを食らえ
Awfully polite of you, "私"
俺様 seemed a little too conceited to use, even anon
>LE
>not on reddit of 2011
UM Ganker sisters?!?!
Okay mother flippin turd pile
<3
You better watch yourself I can kick you in the nards so hard your weiner comes out your fricken mouth
>LE OOs NOSTALGIA
Lys
>can't do anything original
Yup, 00s nostalgiatards are braindead morons. Why don't you have a nice day
Your mom necked herself
>ur mom jokes so 00sss dzxxxxxx
Rope
Neck
You know the drill you fricking troglodyte
Get fricked, Paul.
I accept your concession.
Thats what I said to your mom last night
>another scripted reply
>dude me so 00s dxdxdxd
Gas all zoomers
you just got SCHWACKT, SONNY JIM!
>zoomer goes into mental breakdown and starts speaking gibberish
yeah gibberish like how your mom sounds with my wiener in her mouth!
get owned loser BWL
>You know the drill you fricking troglodyte
That's what your mom said while I was banging here
u mad?
The only drill I do is drill your grandma, loser lololol
Shove a terd up your bunghole lameo bwl
it's kind of crazy that 00's kids that make ur mom jokes and insult you by saying youre dads a nerd, are still way way cooler and less cringe than chuds like this
This guy eats turds and he's not even a rat!
>Rope
>Neck
Oh how original
Get new material, that one's old since the 2010s
damn anon i didn't know you're into bondage
did you need a thesaurus for that one nerd?
Lose your self?
Damn, identity death. Grim.
Where's Dreamsettler?
This games gross scat fetishism makes it unplayable for me.
same for me. I know its nineties teenage cringe but i cant stomach all the shit.
go the frick back to Facebook then
NORMIES DO NOT BELONG ON Ganker
You're the normie here.
Not everything is a fetish, terd hole. Do you consider going through airport security a foot fetish thing too?
Wait, didn't he die during the mindcrash?
You could always save him. Him living is canon
fug DDDD:
It's also possible to save The old biker dude , but none of the other four.
The newscast actually changes to say how many people died based on of you saved one or both of them. If you looked through the game files there was an unused version where only three died, but that was never used and I believe was deleted in a later update.
i accept your moms butthole
Honestly with how Zane's life has been going according to what you can find in game, you probably gave him the best outcome possible.
Why? He's just a stupid kid trying to act big on the internet. Did I miss some text about him having a bad home life or something?
He grows up to be a giant manchild that's stuck in a dead end job that doesn't pay very well and is stuck with a kid on top of that.
Basically what
said. He has absolutely no skills or prospects to get out of his current situation.
IIRC, there was some stuff about his step dad on his FLST.
you could have saved him anon
you could have saved him, and saving him is the canon ending
>He didn't ban Zane
You're a terrible hypnojannie
Enjoying the game so far, love the dumb concept played completely straight. Haven't finished yet but looking forward to the rest.
>make an fps spinoff of a niche adventure game
>sell a bundle that has both the niche adventure game and the spinoff in it
>make it so that you have to not own the niche adventure game that this shooter is a spinoff of in order to get the bundle
I hate this publisher so fricking much
forgot to add
>claim that's just how bundles on steam work
>despite the fact that there are hundreds of "complete the set" type bundles out there
Yeah I kinda just think they didn't wanna give an extra discount since they already had one at release and the chances of you just randomly deciding to buy this without already having played Hypnospace Outlaw are pretty slim.
>already had a discount on release
You mean the trick where they price a game at a really odd price so when a 10-15% discount is applied its normal (multiple of 5) again? This isn't a real discount, they are abusing how steam categorizes stuff so it lasts longer on the front page.
glug glug glug glug ahh!
How is it?
Your fav eceleb made a vid about the game.
Yes but jerma didn't play it yet. Instead he's playing random ass flash game ports.
Will you shut your fricking Black person mouth. Stop trying to "sass" me, and answer the fricking question, you child.
wtf I don't see it on big man tyrone's channel
Charborg did no such thing.
based anon
tomato streamed it at least
Tomato is fun, it's a shame he's such a commie cartoon sometimes. Lmao him ranting for like 30 minutes about how he would disown anyone that played Harry Potter game without having a good reason and donating the money he made to like troony charity was fricking hilarious
Also someone stealing his entire fricking mailbox is fricking hilarious.
>charhomosexual
yikes no
Fun! Short though
It's short (took me about 3 hours to beat although I missed almost every secret). The cutscenes are fricking hilarious. It's like some Deviantard managed to get his hands on some 3D animation software from the 90s and make a game on his weird nonsensical Gary Stu character (In this case, it's Zane, famous CEO/famous comic book artist/part time employee at some Dollar Store parody).
Also the final boss fight was one of the most fun boss fights I've encountered in a long time.
Pretty sure the entire point of the game is that it canonically was made BY Zane, who cast himself as the main character. The entire thing is very early 00s self-insert fanfic.
Helps that Zane has some pre-existing lore/backstory from Hypnospace Outlaw if you played that game.
Just how israeli is Zane?
I've only played Hypnospace Outlaw. How did Zane survive the Hypno-crash?
you have to it for free and flag him multiple times to get him banned by the new year, so he isn't online during the bad car game invasion
Honestly kind of interesting to think of all the people who tried to be the "cool" janny and got a kid killed because of it and just assumed there was no way to save him when he was very clearly going to try and get himself more red flags.
I think it was entirely intentional by the dev, knowing we would try to be paragons and twisting our kindness against us. Pretty based, not gonna lie.
if I had a penny for every game that killed a kid if you were too kind I'd have two pennies
Fricking kids wanting to pull me out of fires and shit
You really have to go out of your way to ban him, that's a mechanic you rarely have to use if at all.
To be fair, you could say that about a lot of aspects of Hypnospace Outlaw. But cracking netcrimes was worth hypnocoin so I was the sort to check back in and see if anything new would crop up.
>Say word
>life saved
I don't remember poop jokes being such a big thing in the 2000s.
Is it just that prevalent because kids find poop jokes funny?
zane isn't the most mature guy, also this is heavily inspired by build engine games which had tons of toilet humor
That makes more sense. Thanks for the answer.
I definitely don't miss that trend.
Who want some wang?
It wasn't, there was goo/snot gross out thing on Nickelodeon but all the scat imagery just seems a personal fixation of the devs.
Not as much on TV but it definitely was on the early internet. I remember running into many silly random "webcomics" or flash animations where the joke was "ha ha ha poop". One that I now suddenly remember out of nowhere was based on A Boy And His Blob, the boy feeds the blob a laxative, it starts shitting all over the place and flies off covering the whole area in it.... the boy commits suicide after seeing his entire house covered in shit.
IIRC they originally said in the early 2000s but I believe they have since confirmed it to be 2003.
"hahaha poop" seemed like it was one of the main punch lines when it came to Newgrounds humor, like the dude in the bathroom you could kill in Pico's School who threw poop at you when you opened his bathroom stall
Jay Tholen, the creator of Hypnospace and Zane's game, is German
He's from Florida, just lives in Germany
I wonder why he lives in Germany.
Why would you ever willingly live in the states?
South Park is full of toilet humor and it was huge in the 00's.
You never watched Joe Cartoon before?
Yes, you fricking dunce. Immature humor is kind of the point.
Yes, kind of. I remember, when I was 11, a complete moron from our class misspelled peace as pis on the blackboard, either deliberately or not, and we had been chuckling whenever someone said peace for a couple of years straight.
Remember: Coolfest ‘99 was an inside job caused by BigHypno
Beef brained post
No, it was a coup by ear mints and seepage. Zane was instrumental in their plans.
The real conspiracy is that Fr33z3r is actually Father Fungus
That's very obvious if you pay attention in Hypnospace. IIRC they had the same headband ID and I think some of the files on FLIST pointed to them being the same person. IIRC he also ran the "Coldpunk is Dead" page
I don't recall but I believe it was also implied that the person who sang on stage Wasn't even him and was just an actor taking his place. Though whether Fr33z3r intentionally set him up to fail to bring the downfall of Coldpunk or it just happened I don't remember but it was quite clear that Fr33z3r felt Coldpunk was dead and had become too much of a commercial version of what it started out as.
Chowder Man, everyone on the helicopter and on the ground watching it take off saw it was him. It was never a question of who was responsible for the crash.
But it was never revealed who was phone
... what? It was showing Zane e-mailing someone in Dreamsettler. But another anon said that was just for the trailer and it's confirmed Zane will not be in it.
>The minigun has some kind of weird drill like barrels that'll deal additional damage to enemies at point blank range and cakes the barrels with blood
It also gives you a vertical boost if you aim it down. A mechanic that is only actually mandatory in ONE of the post-game bonus levels so it's easy to forget it can do that...
Wasn't even aware it was the same dude. I remember playing it during a Steam demo fest and wishlisted it since I liked it, then got it one day when it was on sale. Yeah, almost nobody seems to know or care about that game though.
I always found it hilarious that the boss he's fighting looks like a bootleg fusion of Eggman and 80's Krang.
The real question is, who was the pilot?
SQUISHERZ
THEY'RE REALLY COOOL
Seriously though, when the frick are they gonna make a SquisherZ tamagotchi-style game?
>this homosexual made his own game
>counselor ronny never made anything after Drug Runners
What happened?
He OD’d on T-Nubs
>OOOOUH, I'VE BEEN SHONKED!
What a shame. Rotten way to die.
>he's an uncool teen who inserted a bean
Smh
He moved into being an electronic shaman publishing meditation albums.
I really wonder what Dreamsettler is going to be like. Is it just Hypnospace with a new coat of paint, is it set in next decade or something else?
>is it set in next decade
Yes, the trailer shows the year as 2005.
I like this sort of larp thing they've got going on in the steam discussions and steam reviews where they've basically got a Zane account that insults people and argues with the publisher
He did it on twitter before the game came out too, a lot of morons got trolled because they thought he was a real person.
jay actually stepped in once to clarify he was fricking around and that zane isn't real, which is both hilarious and sad
>no
>No
>well people are buying it so nobody gives a crap about your opinion.
THIS IS NOT LARP HIS IS NOT WHAT LARP MEANS STOP BUTCHERING THE THERM
It literally is larp
IT IS NOT
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LARP MEANS
YOU'RE NO DIFFERENT THAN A ZOOMER MISUSING POV
Calm down sweaty, take your meds
ADMIT YOU'RE WRONG
I'm right, the Zane account is larp, you just don't understand terms I guess??
IT IS SAD TO SEE YOU INSIST ON BEING IGNORANT INSTEAD OF ADMITTING YOU ARE WRONG, SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE.
>SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE
Swallow my turd before I kick pinch you so hard you bleed
YOU SUCK
>THERM
How about you stop butchering language first
🙁
This is one of those games of where novelty, humor and cultural references kind of sells it alone. I can overlook genre bloat because of this.
Honestly this game hits a chord with me similar to Lil Gator Game which sounds really weird to say, but its this childhood memory of drawing and making games to play but it actually came to life. I had heaps of notebooks with tons of map ideas, cutscenes, powerups, etc, and it hit that just right.
For better or for worse, this game feels like the designers played a lot of the shitty forgotten 90's FPS as inspiration, not just the usual Doom/Quake/Duke. At least the gameplay is much more fun than Redneck Rampage, even if the version I played on Game Pass was chock full of shitty bugs like enemies clipping through floors and entire geometry disappearing.
Also, anybody check out those extra levels you get after beating the game? Felt the exact same feeling I did when downloading shitty Blood usermaps from the net as a teen, kind of freaky.
How do you make secrets valuable without an actual progression system?
Make the secrets fun or valuable in-game, with special powerups, secret weapons, lore dumps, etc.
The Conspiravision easter egg in Deus Ex is absolutely fantastic and it's just for fun.
Zane reminds me of Rockwiener64 when he was cool
You mean cuckcage64? Zane is based cause he never got whipped by a man in a wig
Rockwiener64 was good when he hid his face and was actually a character he played back during The Best Gamers
Everyone was better before they reveal themselves. Just look at fricking penguinz0 and mandalore's early work.
I know nothing of the game this is a spin off of, but does this Zane guy have a scat fetish? There's shit everywhere, a concerning amount of shit even.
Why are you so fixated on this aspect of the game? This is like your 10th post about this.
What the frick are you talking about i just got here.
Oh, sure, you're playing that card.
He was the 40th IP in this thread according to my hacker vision.
You should play Hypnospace Outlaw. It's good.
some people think shit and farts are funny. not everything is sexual
KEEP MY ALIIIIIIIVE
WHEN MY BACK'S AGAINST THE WALL
I CAN'T MAKE IT OUT OF HERE WITHOUT YOOOOU
Counselor Ronnie, reporting for duty.
Duty, duty, du-du-duty.
What's the IRL version of Seepage? I unironically like their songs.
Linkin Park?
I know but that's a real band playing those songs.
It's a indie composer named Queenjazz, I think she plays all the parts of the songs herself.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/123473/hypnospace-outlaw/credits/windows/
Neat-o
https://queenjazz.bandcamp.com/
They're a Linkin Park parody.
Clearly a parody of Linkin Park
>game gets a thread after an e-celeb covers it
kys yourself
>game came out a week ago
moron
and threads made on the day of release or the day after died after 6-7 posts, but now that an e-celeb made a video about it, then the thread doesn't die.. it's always like this w/ nu-Ganker because zoomers are sheep
You're keenly aware of when e-celebs make videos about games, you should leave.
>seeing it mentioned in this thread is being "keenly aware"
frick off israelite
Oh so you're just a brainlet parroting shit you know nothing about.
>LE SEWER COUNT XD XD
Oh no motherfricker, we wouldn't even be having this thread if it weren't for ecelebs. It's hard enough getting a thread about a niche game like Hypnospace going, let alone a thread about an equally niche spinoff.
reported for harassment
MOOOOOOOOOOODS
Why isn't there a rip of the Psyko Injektaz going YAMANAMANAMANAMA GOONGA yet
The 3D animations remind me of early Nickalodeon days for some reason
Anyone else actually enjoy the brevity of the campaign? It hits a bunch of really good points and doesn't outstay its welcome for what is clearly a very dedicated longform shitpost.
>Zane deconfirmed for Dreamsettler
Bros...
That was just for the direct. The devs confirmed that Zane won't be in the game because he would have been too poor to afford the service.
>That was just for the direct
false advertising much?
>load-bearing drywall
heh
>Ganker does construction
>American architecture.flv
i must assume this is a jab to the edgelord who made Anonymous;Agony?
No... it's... did you miss the rest of the thread, and all the threads about Hypnospace Outlaw?
>implying
Payment in exposure is a concept to be warned about as an artist, you rock-living slug.
>grover looking for load bearing drywall
Jesus fricking christ, this is a deep cut.
I was gonna ask, how much is Dreamsettler referenced in Slayers? I player Hypnospace, but not Dreamsettler, since it wasn't part of the package.
? Dreamsettler isn't out yet and it won't be for a while
Ah, well, that explains it.
Zanechads, why can't we stop winning?
Wait, really? There is a Hypnospace reference in Spectacular Sparky?
Oh yeah, there's a bunch of stuff snuck in for various games and jokes. The dev went over it on a stream here:
I didn't know someone actually bought Sparky. I liked the dude's AVGN games but this didn't look like anything special
I bought a copy of Spectacular Sparky just because I noticed that this poster was drawn by Richard Elson, who was also one of the artists for the Bongland Sonic comic in the 90s, and I thought that was pretty cool.
Why did Zane hate Corey so much? Why did EVERYONE hate Corey so much prior to him going niceguy mode with Tiff
Everyone didn't hate him from what I remember. As for why Zane didn't like him, its simple. He was a nerd and an easy target to make fun of.
Dispatch calls Corey as a potential school shooter when you Flag him and suspends him for three days while Zane is just "having some fun" and gets a warning. IIRC the opnly person who says anything nice about Corey is Sandy. The Dumpster and Tim both dislike him too
>gets a warning.
POV you didn't save Zane, fricking loser ||neither did I:(||
Frick off back to discord, moron.
>Frick off back to discord, moron.
>>||
Please don't bully me, I only use it to message my friends because they refuse to use teamspeak anymore 🙁
you have to know about it beforehand to ignore the mindcrash stuff, find zane's unlisted page, and flag him again
>||
zane gets a warning in phase 1 and 2 then a ban phase 3, so you need to flag him three times to save him
>Dispatch calls Corey as a potential school shooter when you Flag him and suspends him for three days
I must of forgot that, because then yeah, that's a little harsh (though I can't remember what he gets flagged for, so maybe not).
>The Dumpster and Tim both dislike him too
The dumpster and Tim are both trolls though and shit on virtually everyone.
You browse a fictional version of the old internet as a moderator, but it has a ton of optional webpages you can visit that aren't necessary at all.
I really hated Tim for how much of a cringe homosexual he was
why isn't the S blade the cool middle school S
If I had to guess, I'd say it'd look too practical. moronic and impractical weapon designs are kind of a staple of teenage OC moronation (kind of like that one moronic original character donut steele Keyblade that used to get posted in vidya cringe threads here regularly)
Anyone else notice that in the cutscene where when you talk to Mevin in his backyard, it's clearly a TRENNIS court? I loved that little detail when on Hypnospace the Trennis thing was a single throwaway gag website that was completely optional unless you were going for 100% completion of every webpage visited.
Zane probably thought it would look lame since it's not something he made and likely kids at school he hated used it too. That or it does not even exist in the setting, don't forget that the universe Hypnospace/Dreamsettler/SlayersX takes place in is an alternate one where some things in history happened differently (like the Tennis/Trennis example above)
That's the great thing about it, it had no deep meaning whatsoever. It's literally nothing more than "Hey, remember that 15 year old kid from Hypnospace that was an egotistical butthole? Well, what if he was trying to make a game back then, lost the work he did, never really became any less of an egotistical despite becoming 37, and then found the designs for the game he had lost and decided to finish it?"
That's it, it's about as "deep" as a puddle, the whole point is that it's a boomer shooter "designed" by a 15-now-37 year old egotistical butthole with no other hidden meaning whatsoever, nor any meta-nonsense like Undertale or Doki Doki Literature Club.
About as "deep" as it gets is that one of the easter eggs in a later level is a secret area put there by the guy Zane got to do most of the work on the game since he sure as frick is too stupid to make a game on his own where said guy basically mocks Zane for hounding him to finish the game 20 years later and having never amounted to anything more than a manager at a dollar store despite being 37 now.
The gameplay itself is not bad at all, it's pretty good, the only thing that is bad on purpose is the story (and the girl's voiceacting) which is about 5 minutes of cutscenes total.
So glad someone else noticed trennis, it's probably my favourite piece of world building in hypnospace, it's hilarious.
It's the Seepage's S. Mikey is a band member too.
Is this the eceleb thread for zoom zoom zoomer to gossip like little girls?
The only way you know its related to an eceleb is if you watch ecelebs.
should I play hypnospace first?
yes, if for no other reason that hypnospace outlaw is a better game anyway
>DUDE LE RETRO SHOOTER WITH SECRET DEEP MEANING
No thanks.
There's literally no deep meaning unless you mean the terds you fish out from deep in your ass.
LOSER!
I'm not playing a game that's bad on purpose.
Then don't.
But it's not.
I mean presentation-wise it's bad on purpose, but it's a pretty solid Build Engine core (I fricking hate the term "boomer shooter") shooter.
Only thing that's bad are the visuals (which is deliberate) but in terms of gameplay it's pretty solid. There's some neat gimmicks with some of the weapons. The shotgun in the game for example (forget what it's called) shoots broken glass and instead of standard ammo pick ups you break windows and glass objects to get ammo for it. The crossbow launches explosive cans that in addition to dealing splash damage also spawn rats which attack nearby enemies (and you can talk to them). The minigun has some kind of weird drill like barrels that'll deal additional damage to enemies at point blank range and cakes the barrels with blood (except for terd monsters which cake the barrels with shit). Then you've got your super weapon that has two firing modes, specifically throwing exploding energy balls if you just click the fire button and firing a constant energy beam if you hold the fire button. Firing the beam also causes you to levitate as well so you can use it to reach places you wouldn't normally be able to get to
Safe edgy game for the woke generation: hard pass
What did you think of Hatred?
The only good thing about Postal 1 was the soundtrack that was straight ripped from a sample CD.
Please go outside and talk to people
you should stop talking to children, troon
I'm too busy talking to you're mom to talk to kids
Or at least I was until she started talking about paternity tests and how paying child support was the least I could do for leaving her stuck with a moronic kid
>Safe edgy
I have never heard this phrase before in my life.
"Safe" X is some new zoomer buzzword speak because they are legitimately too stupid to know the proper definitions.
Its not "risque" or "fan service" anymore, its "safe horny" because they know what horny means.
If you hear anyone talking like this they are at least a decade younger than you, maybe more.
Ganker is the only place I've ever seen people use the term "safe ____"
Most terms start on this website. Zoomer and coomer both originated from here, and now you see them everywhere.
I don't get it.
Whats to get? Its a parody of edgy 2000s-era teens made by a fictional character from hypnospace outlaw. Look at the game like a 15 year old edgelord made it.
It's just not funny
No, Anon, YOU'RE not funny.
So is it good? I'm trying to decide between this and HROT.
Get this if you like Duke Nukem, late 90s American suburbia, and self-loathing nostalgia. Get HROT if you like Quake, Soviet satellite states, and existential discomfort.
HROT is alright for the most part but it's seriously lacking in terms of cohesive level design. You could be in a castle in one level, then some kind of Soviet facility or downtown area the next, and then a church/catacomb out in the country side the next. Since the themes between levels are so haphazard and since the intermission text between episodes merely consists of recipes for slavic dishes there's no real sense of progression.
Needs more weapons and enemy types, but other than that the game is pretty good.
Am I missing something or are some secrets just straight up empty rooms with no items or anything?
What difficulty are you playing on?
Beat it on I'm Awesome. Will probably go back for Inzane soon since I felt it was still a bit easy.
So, how is this? I really liked Hypnospace Outlaw. It captured the uncynical enthusiasm of the era very well.
If you liked Hypnospace and you like boomer shooters you'll like this. It does the same thing Hypnospace did with it's characters where you can see some hints of Zane's real personality leaking through the edgy teen mask. Like how he pulls a Chris-chan and makes his IRL boss and possibly stepdad the villain of his game.
>Hit use on one of the laundry machines
>Zane comments that he doesn't need to do laundry because he hasn't pooped himself
NUH YEH
I love the version of that line that's "I don't need to do laundry, my mom does that for me! Oh...
Truly the most tragic vidya death of all time
They retconned his little brother being in the car from the trailer
poop game
The whole meta angle that this is actually just a game made by some looser trying to relive his childhood is gay as shit but everything else is cool.
>The whole meta angle that this is actually just a game made by some looser trying to relive his childhood is gay as shit
I find it hilarious. It's one of the most entertaining ways I've seen developers interact with the community
Hit too close to home huh?
boring civvie episode
they always are
I liked the Shogo one since it reminded me of a game I enjoyed as a kid and some of the reactions he had were similar to mine at the time.
i had that shit on disc. fond memories
Shogo seems like such a cool game, wish it could get a reboot.
The CompSci teacher at my primary school let us install Shogo on the computers there and we played it alongside Unreal on the LAN there.
i had to play it at the neighbors stealth mode. too violent
He didn’t use cancer mouse to point how offensive it is that the woman are stuffed in the fridge, must have taken restraint to not suck troony wiener
There is a strangely Juggalo vibe to this game.
reminder they are christians and shangra la is heaven
what a twist
>Finding the hidden dev rant where the guy who was Zane's friend in high school absolutely hates Zane's guts for begging him to finish the game 20 years later in some desperate attempt to escape his dead end Dollar Store manager job
This is too real, I hate it
the secret with his kid's drawing is kinda sweet tho
>Find the secret in the dam with his kid's shitty doodles
>Realize he named his kid Mikey after his cringe OC donut steel
>Zane still sounds like a proud, beaming father saying that his kid will probably be an artist one day
There's a weird poignancy here that's elevated by how shitposty the rest of the game is.
>cringe OC donut steel
I thought Mikey was the singer in Seepage? unless I'm misremembering
He is, just like in the "webcomic" Zane had on his website in Hypnospace he basically made his self-insert be in a secret organization that Mikey started, as well as have him "secretly" be his father (IIRC he never met his real father) because he's a fan of the band Mikey is the frontman of.
In-Universe apparently Mikey for some reason was amused when he saw the archive of Zane's hypnospace fanpage and allowed him to license the songs for the game.
I guess the Mikey in the game is half-OC, he's based on a real person but heavily altered.
Kids just simply not liking each other in school happens all the time, it could have been any number of things that started it or even just trying to fit in with a group that also did not like him. Many of these happen with little to no reason.
>Dispatch calls Corey as a potential school shooter when you Flag him
WTF? That's kind of.... extreme. Was this added in the Plus update that added more content to the game? I don't remember that at all.
IIRC it was implied that Corey might be a bit of a jerk as well, though nowhere near the level of Zane that pretty much everyone hates, or judging by his pizza jokes page he could just be annoyingly awkward and weird. I am pretty sure that Tim doesn't like him because he tried to hit on Tiff. Same with Zane, which is why later Tim hacked his page (I don't recall if Corey's page gets hacked) after they both started annoying Tiff. Just about all the trouble that Tim caused people on Hypnospace was over trying to impress Tiff.
Also, part of the harsher punishment might have been because Corey started a club to hate on Zane and had (before an update to the game) graphic showing Zane being decapacitated. (Slayers X has the original in it)
That's the first Act, Zane always gets a warning there, and without sequence breaking is mandatory to happen as part of the story. It's in the last act that you can get Zane banned to save him.
>WTF? That's kind of.... extreme
Nah its not flat out "hes a school shooter" its more " I get a bad vibe from this weird kid" and giving him a harsher punishment than Zane
>Nah its not flat out "hes a school shooter" its more " I get a bad vibe from this weird kid" and giving him a harsher punishment than Zane
Ok yes, that sounds a lot more familiar. Rather extreme to hear that and think they were implying he was a potential school shooter.
Virtual parasite? I don't remember that, unless you are referring to the "disturbing" imagery he hacked into some people's webpages or that weird "virus" that displayed pieces of a deformed foot and corrupted images on your screen. Neither of those was called Virtual Parasite though.
>Virtual parasite
There was that horror mini "game" you could play
>Virtual parasite?
The Scary, True Tranquility that Tim and Tiff collaborated on has four characters referred to as "Digital Parasites" that were based on four users from multiple zones and makes fun of them pretty badly, even calling out the guys dead wife and the guy for being a paraplegic
I remember the card game, which was supposed to be a way to hint at which pages were "infected" without just brute-force looking at every page, didn't remember it being called Digital Parasite. Also didn't remember it being that harsh on the people.
Considering the entire game is about 20-ish year old internet nostalgia and they absolutely nailed it in a way only someone who was there could it's not really a surprise. There are a few webpages that mimic events that were happening in our world during that time, such as this one Christian page that tries to insist the in-universe version of Pokemon is secretly satanic.
The people are the digital parasites, Tim makes fun of them for using Hypnospace as a way to cope with their less than stellar realities. Chowderman being a washed up tryhard, Harlan for his shitty page design and his no legs, Biker guys dead wife etc
Funny, since t1m was just as if not more pathetic than them, desperately trying to impress m1nx and Tiffany, failing in both, and basically acting as a script kiddie compared to m1nx's actual hacking with the leaks. Even the horus club got more done, as a joke, than he did. Imagine spending 6 years of your life in prison and thinking you killed 4+ people with your gay page takeover spam.
>had (before an update to the game) graphic showing Zane being decapacitated
They removed that? Fricking pussies
Honestly for how shit his life is I do hope that Zane is willing to be the father he never had for his kid even if its in his own fricked up way.
Hey it could be worse. He could just be stuck as a cashier or courtesy clerk at a dollar saver
>a kid
Already more fulfilled than half of Ganker. Not sad enough.
>Here is the real X Slayer ZANE
>BWLBWLBWLBWLBWLBWLBWLBWLBWLBWL
Absolutely brutal
It's kind of incredible how hard this game commits to the 16 year old "can't use real swear words incase mom hears" when Zane is a grown man, even funnier is how it uses the ring finger for flip offs
Maybe he doesn't want his kid hearing swear words or seeing obscene gestures
Kind of wholesome if that's the case
He could just simply be that stupid. The game is utterly full of misspelled words after all. Or maybe the ring finger is what's considered flipping people off in that universe. (Lot harder to pull off than using the middle finger however)
I unironically know a few redneck morons that do that. They usually self c*nsor and have dead end jobs like zane. Safe to say the dev probably knew a few people like that was well.
The dev is Christian, I bought 12 copies after learning that
he's a gay communist
No you're joking, watch it before I kick you in the nards
https://steamcommunity.com/app/844590/discussions/0/3387282978266075884/
>I'm not a fan of 'political' games that use abundant leftist and/or queer imagery to attract an audience that largely already agrees with said politics. That's more marketing than it is legitimately expressing a political ideology. It rarely amounts to much more than flavor or style or a call to a particular tribe.
>These are the kinds of empty 'politics' that AAA games throw in and tbh I don't blame anyone for outright rejecting that.
>Politics are are best addressed via mundane and relatable characters of different ages and classes, and the very real impact that corporate or gov't choices make on their lives. Not some utopia where everyone in the game is 22 and has pink hair and rescues animals while also completing a sociology degree.
was this supposed to make me mad because it just makes me like him more
Frick, I gotta buy 50 copies now, actual based dev for once
sadly the other dev is more of the moron leftist kind
what media is the game specifically spoofing? Linkin Park is the first thing that comes to mind
>what media is the game specifically spoofing?
That notebook you had in high school that you drew all your shitty comics in
>game is 1 hour long
psyko sindikate wins again...
I just realized the character who voices stefanie might be the actual co-worker (and ex-gf, if you consider the twitter account canon) Zane based her on
if he really contacted her twenty years later and asked her to voice act in his game, that would explain why her performance is so half-assed
hackblood is just a code word for HIV positive.
How's Hypnospace Outlaw gameplay? loved Slayers X and im going to get Hypnospace regardless, i was just curious about what kinda game it is
netscape jannie simulator inside an in-game OS
Neocities janny, but I guess you're too young to know what that is
ok old man
I'm a zoomer too, I just like to appear superior 🙂
Point and click adventure game puzzle solver though the use of an in universe web browser
The game is pretty much Geocities/Angelfire browsing sim.
It takes place in an alternate universe that's similar to ours but has several differences that you will run into as you browse pages, most of those are optional and just for worldbuilding. A big one being that tech that lets you use a computer in your sleep was invented in the late 90s, as that's what the whole game takes place in. You are a mod and only allowed access to specific curated areas of the service (I don't recall if it's implied if the headbands can access the entire internet but as a mod you are locked into specific zones you are supposed to moderate, or if it's a smaller network that only the headbands can access something like the "zones" AOL had).
If you used the internet in the mid-to-late 90s or early 00s it should feel very familiar.
>The dumpster and Tim are both trolls though and shit on virtually everyone.
Not really, The Dumpster generally leaves kids alone. When they gave Zane an "award" they mentioned how this one time they are making an exception because of how much of a toxic butthole Zane is.
Tim if I remember right only started to hate Zane later when he started to bother Tiff, but he also hated Corey for the same reason.
Unless by some unholy miracle the game in-universe sells well, he's going to have to win another lottery to do that. The backstory is that's how he managed to afford to make this one, and he's apparently not going to be in Hypnospace's sequel because he's too poor to afford the service.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/844590/discussions/0/3387282978266075884/#c3418808280400935239
Doesn't sound like it at all
Tim also did the virtual parasite stuff, shitting on people who kept to themselves mostly for no reason, I rate him worse than Zane tbqh
I hope Zane makes another game. Slayers X was great. It's not the most solid in the genre of retro throwback shooters, but it's got it's own charm.
Why was hypnocity so short:(
It's just for the memes.
>Decide to do INZANE for my first playthrough
>Fighting Warewolf Steffanie and the ridiculous enemy room with 6% health
frickin tense
praise the sewage launcher and rats
>Then seeing that 250 kills was only 60% of Cult Die Sac
jfc
I have had enemies respawn after reloading my save on inzane
Yeah, I noticed when I saved in the enemy room before pressing the switch the spawn the second wave, I got shot in the back a few times despite being pretty sure I cleared the room first but I was wondering if I was just insane. inzane even
The game’s bugged to shit. Those flying brains appeared to respawn every time I reloaded with 1 HP, but would sometimes be stuck under the floor so they could shoot me and I couldn’t shoot back. Other weird shit I saw was enemy sprite billboarding glitching out so they’d be facing you at odd angles with the edge sticking out like some Paper Mario shit, and entire buildings disappearing so enemies can shoot through.
gamepass version is supposedly really buggy because the microsoft verification process takes forever
Damn, wish I had known that before I played. All the broken shit outside the intended jank kind of soured my first impressions, but I still had a good time overall.
It's really no better on Steam. It's just a buggy mess no matter what.
The final level was probably one of the most intense levels I've played in a boomer shooter in a long time
basically you're on a highway leaping between cars and trucks and going through trailers and buses. Once you get to the second phase of the final boss he turns into this giant head on a spring or some shit while you're jumping around the previous cars and shit to avoid his attacks. Buses and trailers only provide temporary cover because his attacks will destroy the roofs and walls of them. It's pretty intense
Thoughts on VoxLord? I don’t know much about the lead guy Frank but I know the guitarist Vinny got me too’d and Joel the drummer is addicted to coke
Thanks for posting about the political stuff. You guys just saved me $20.
Uhh, the politics are really hidden and barely noticeable, it's fun, it's also on sale too :p
There are practically no politics at all in either game, especially Slayers X.
I don't remember that. Really should go re-play Hypnospace. Was that added later in the Plus update?
>don't remember that
Remember the card game, the one that hints at who has the images on their page? Idk if that was called parasite, I'm not thst anon
There's like two LGBT characters in Hypnospace with a rainbow flag badge on their sites. That's enough to make /misc/tards freak.
Funny thing is it would not have been obvious at all back at the time the game is supposed to take place in, the tag is even listed as "lifestyle" or something like that. And outside of that tag nothing about them on their webpages IIRC implies they are gay.
It's more he wishes she would be his girlfriend than she is, even in the game they are not together.
And no, of course not. ... maybe
Jokes aside, I wonder if him making up a potential girlfriend for his self-insert in the game is supposed to be a callback to when he created a fake page for a made up girl he claimed was his girlfriend in Hypnospace.
Technically the game came out in-universe in 2020, even if most of it was designed around 1998 or so. The fact that the designer/main character has not grown up or matured at all since 1998 doesn't help make that obvious.
Going off this
it came out in 2022. If according to the secret room, Zane is 37, it means he he was born in 1985, and saying he designed the game when he was 13, so 1998, it counts. Ignore morons like
, furgay didn’t become “mainstream” until 1999 (appearing in MTV’s Downtown)
I hope everything goes okay for Zane
I’m interested in how his shitty friend will reconcile with Zane if the game does well enough to warrant a sequel. Will the levels be shit cause he left? Will there be secrets where he admits he was wrong about Zane? Or he argues it was only good because of him?
Be honest. Would you Zane's Girlfriend when she became a Warewolf?
I'd never date a psyko.
This game exists in a time before furries, trannies and other mindrot degeneracy
>late 90's - 2000s
>before furries
>When furries were a thing back in the 80s and 90s with artists selling their stuff through old IRC channel groups
None of that shit was mainstream and the industry wasn't self-aware of degenerates creeping in yet. Pic related.
Thing is though, I think it was implied in Hypnospace that furries don't really exist in that universe. Some of the optional stuff you can run into, which as I recall even The Dumpster pointed out and was confused by it, was how some people on FLIST had drawings of cars with faces, I think some of them were supposed to be seductive looking too.
Felt like that was implying that instead of animals, the "furry" equivalent in that universe was anthropomorphizing cars and vehicles instead.
yeah that kid was definitely drawing carsonas to jerk off to
That's just it. There's no humongous database of said cars. There's no alloted zone to discuss these cars, and there's no twitter adjacent where a huge congregation of them brushes against the mainstream world. We won't see pixar's cars be cancelled just like that jack and the beanstalk film was just yet. It's very much before that era of degenerate homogeneity and self-awareness.
source?
It's a fun game. It does channel that early 2000s edge well. I wish the game was harder and the weapons had alt fires. Inzane wasn't very difficult. Had a few laughs here and there.
WTF i just finished playing Slayer X a few hours ago and there's an entire expanded universe lore autism behind it?
There's a game that came out before it, yes.
Slayers X is basically an official fangame/spinoff of Hypnospace Outlaw, which came out in 2019. Zane (as in, the "real" Zane, the in-universe person who made the game about himself) was one of the characters. The game was about you moderating a late-90s internet service that you use in your sleep, Zane was one of the more frequent troublemakers on said service.
Hypnospace itself is also getting a sequel called Dreamsettler that will take place in 2003.
I enjoyed this game, but I'm more looking forward to Dreamsettler. Fricking loved the detective aspect of Hypnospace.
lotta butthurt homosexuals in here
Shit game, Zane is a loser
Suck my balls corey
No fps ever after the build trio eve managed to make quippy protags not annoying
your gay and stupid
stick a turd up youre bunghole
>annoying
>missing the point of Zane THIS HARD
The mental hospital was on the phone, they said you need to go back
KEEP ME IN A GRAVEYAAAAAAAAARD
WOAH
I FOUND A SECRET!
>not the :O face
I dont have that one im at the office rn
Playing this made me wish Ion Fury Aftershock was real and not vaporware
>no quicksave/load
>asks you if you want to overwrite every time
>pressing enter choses no
>tfw I have to redo that entire secret area in the 5th level
How do you even fly properly with the talisman?
Talismen gets almost no verticality, you have to use the minigun for high jumps
the only worthwhile thing in the secret area is the minigun to the right, the ravine with all those jezta spawners/elementals gives you a teleport back to the main area without the guaranteed dmg from falling
Oh yeah, the minigun is definitely easier. Also you seem to gain air when hitting targets with the talisman. Shame there's nothing in that area.
doesn't work, am I getting bamboozled by a psyko turdhead?
>doesn't work
Works on my machine. Notice the save icon on the top-left whenever I save and Zane going "THE S-BLADE HAS A HACKBLOOD CHARGE" whenever I quickload in.
Strange, it doesn't work no matter what I press.
Also the door to the tower doesn't seem to unlock even though I killed every enemy on the map
Still stuck on that tower, did I get softlocked? Is there a way to noclip or something?
quicksave was added after they submitted to microsoft so gamepass won't get it for a while
>no quicksave/load
Press F5 and F9.
Time your jump after you start holding the button to charge the beam such that you start firing at the apex of your jump. Since you stay at the exact same altitude while you still have hackblood, timing the jump should give you just enough height to make it to the next edge and repeat the process. Worked enough for me to get through that secret area in the computer as well as the shitty bonus level where it’s necessary.
The Talisman slowly and gradually raises you to a fixed maximum height over your current position - this means that to effectively fly with it you need to stand at a high point - fire until you stop ascending, THEN you should move forward while holding the beam. You won't get any vertical boost if just throw it out during a jump over a ledge/pit.
That being said it takes a lot of hackblood to use correctly and it's a better habit to just use the chaingun, which has a higher maximum height anyways.
>Unfinished Boise level reveals that Zane only hates Squisherz because his collection got stolen
DEEPEST LORE
Well, you know, squisherz are really cool, after all.
Even though Zane is clearly not real, it's kinda admirable that they had his character leap at the chance to bring his childhood OC to life rather than being some no fun adult who would look back at his past life and go "that's cringe"
If I had the time, money, and skills i would have done something like this with stuff i made when i was a kid.
Cringecore.